Hmm, I first misread your line TAKE THAT BITCH! as anti-Krugman . . . as in, take that bitch and get him outta here. It needed a comma (TAKE THAT, BITCH!) or just the middle word stressed (take THAT bitch!) Or preferably both. :)

I'm not reading or watching anything Oz-ish until the Wicked movie comes out. That is all. :)

That Dos Equis guy, the Most Interesting Man in the World? Bah! He's got nothing on St. Germain. Unless . . .

Ah, so you have a vested interest in defending logic machines as AI development. I see . . . ;-) I confess that my knowledge of neural nets is very limited, and probably outdated. If you can explain (very simply) how they work independent of human input and about where we are in terms of developing neural nets, I…

This post is going to be long, so apologies to anyone who is interested in the debate but prefer it in bite-sized chunks.

I think so. :)

The reason neural networks are closer to human brains than pure logic machines is because they can, to some extent, alter their schema when they fail to recognize something according to the pattern. However, ultimately they can only do this with constant feedback from humans, so it is still very limited and in no…

First off, all I said about neural nets was that they are closer to human intelligence than any other attempted AI has been thus far. Secondly, you need to read The Improbable Machine by Jeremy Campbell—he goes into great detail about the differences between the human brain and Turing machines. Sorry, but the brain…

So when the adults in kids' lives treat them with honesty and respect, children behave better? Wow, what a surprise. Yep, that was sarcasm.

That seems reasonable to me. At the very least it can't hurt to continue exploring top-down approach—we may learn things in the process that will be useful in the bottom-up development of AI.

You forgot to mention the exploding shurikens.

Oh yes, I think we can create AI. I just think we've been going about it all wrong.

Are you being facetious? If so . . . :-p. Seriously, my best answer is, I really don't know. What I was referring to as 'top down' was the hypothesis that AI scientists have operated on from the beginning: essentially the idea that what makes us human are our higher mental capabilities, meaning our ability to…

Yeah, we have Copperheads here and they are the same way—the babies are more dangerous than the adults. But neither are something you want to run into. Or step on.

Anyone who grew up in the country (me!) sees these all the time. Not quite as big, mind you, but they are everywhere down here and slow enough to easily catch. I caught a lot of them as a kid (and pretty much any bug or reptile I could get hold of). Spiders do not bother me at all, unless it's a black widow or a…

The problem, as I pointed out in another io9 article, is that you cannot build an artificial intelligence from the top down, because our brains are not simply fancy calculators. It is the errors we are prone to as much as the correct assessments of reality that make us human. We are hopelessly flawed because we…

Poor, poor deluded girl. Well, at least she has good grammar.

Wait, nowhere did he say "Vote for Obama if you want this." For all we know he could just be really confident that Obama will win a second term. I think we're reading a little too much into what he said.

I've always loved the Argento-written and produced (Michele Soavi directed) film The Church which came out at the tail-end of the '80s. I was in high school at the time and it completely changed what I knew about the horror genre. I had just started reading Clive Barker as well, and I think I saw Hellraiser not long…

Seems like a movie tailor-made for the SyFy Channel . . . circa seven years ago. I'm an agnostic but I thank whatever gods were involved in making sure this never happened.